Education

The school board this week selected two Lancaster County natives as the new principals for Lancaster High School and Kershaw Elementary.
Rosalyn Mood, who has been serving as interim principal at LHS since longtime Principal Joe Keenan retired, was named principal of the county’s largest school.
And Kelli Farmer, a Heath Springs native who has been working in Greenville County, will come back home to lead Kershaw Elementary.
Both were approved by the school board at Tuesday night’s meeting.

Looking for an affordable summer camp with an educational focus? Check out USC Lancaster’s Arts and Sciences Adventure Camp.
The first session of the eight-day camp, sponsored by Nutramax Laboratories, Springs Memorial Hospital and USCL, was June 5-15. You can still sign up for the second summer session, which runs July 10-13 and 17-20.
“All parents have to do is apply and put… that they have a need,” said camp director Dwayne Brown.

Lancaster County school board unanimously approved a $102 million budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year after a public hearing Tuesday night.
Expenditures for the upcoming fiscal year are $102,649,796 and revenues are $99,930,644.

It was the perfect day to harvest their fourth year of honey – close to July but not so late that the honey becomes bitter.

Debra Huey, a Lancaster High job-transition coach, and her family walked to their eight beehives last Sunday and took out all of the frames, which were full of honey and had a wax layer on top.
Huey said she’s always been interested in how smart bees are.
“My grandfather was a beekeeper,” she said. “I was always amazed and so fascinated by the hives.”

Lancaster County School District will have a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the upcoming fiscal year’s $102 million budget before its approval.
The meeting will be at the school district office, 300 S. Catawba Street, Lancaster.
The board of trustees will vote on the budget at 6 p.m. after the public hearing. The monthly board meeting will follow at 7 p.m.
LCSD Superintendent Gene Moore said the hearing is designed for the public to give input to the board before the budget is voted on.

Gene Moore, who will retire next month as Lancaster County school superintendent, was packing up his office Thursday and came across a puzzling 125-year-old artifact.
Underneath a box atop a cabinet, he found a school attendance ledger dated 1892.
“I was cleaning stuff out and was like, ‘Whoa, what is that?’” Moore said Thursday.
In his 12 years as superintendent, Moore has been known for keeping an orderly office, but he had never come across the ledger before.

Lancaster County School District and state education officials are hoping the General Assembly will override Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto of $20.5 million in funding for new school buses.
The money is part of a $28.9 million allocation that would pay for the state to buy or lease more than 400 new school buses, according to the S.C. Department of Education.